The Council’s research on rooftop solar focuses on analysing consumer demand and behaviour, designing feasible business models for residential adoption, and evaluating the role of utilities. Rooftop solar creates 24.7 full-time equivalent jobs per MW, significantly higher than the corresponding figure of 3.5 jobs per MW for utility-scale solar. As of December 2017, cumulative rooftop solar installed capacity was 1.6 GW in India.